That clapboard Italianate house went up in flames at midnight on Ash Wednesday in 1975, but not before accumulating generations of ghost stories that shaped the “moral imagination” of Kirk and ...

On this spooky day, we have what I think is an appropriate American Artifacts: the Chicago writer Sam Buntz on a new biography of Cormac McCarthy, whose books, in Buntz’s words, “smear evil right in ...

Will Trump meddle if the GOP loses? What races are worth watching?

Several weeks into her research, the woman, Hannah Arendt, was arrested. Her life was doubtless at risk. But a funny thing happened: “I got out after eight days,” Arendt said in an interview later, ...

Plus: Republican officials open investigations into the Alaska Senate race, Trump is briefed on Iran war plans, and Happy Halloween!

And Alaska Democrats would have gotten away with it, too, if not for you meddling kids, including the ones over at the New York Times . The Dan Sullivan/Daniel Sullivan (I keep thinking of Tony! Toni!

After backing Trump in three elections, Macomb County is a spot where Mike Rogers needs to generate Republican enthusiasm.

Now, the Democrats are reaping the rewards of our neglect—and we have no one to blame but ourselves.” Four years later, Princeton professor Paul Starr refused to join the finger-pointing at Obama for ...

Editor’s Note: This essay was originally published at O. Alan Noble’s You Are Not Your Own Substack and is reprinted with permission.

Obama’s joke was solid, Tyler Cowen is wrong about ‘Who’s on First?’, and comedy doesn’t need to hold up to logic.

Plus: The Justice Department sues to block certification of Alaska’s Senate race, the Pentagon readies options for renewed strikes on Iran, and the one simple trick to winning the lottery.

While DOJ monitors have observed elections for civil rights violations since 1965, recent remarks from DOJ leadership about voter fraud and the department’s adherence to the president’s agenda have ...